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Bush, Norton

artist, was born Feb. 22, 1834, in Rochester, N. Y. Most of his life has been spent in San Francisco. He was elected, in 1877, director of the San Francisco Art association, of which he had been a member since 1874, and was president of the Sacramento Bric-à-Brac club from 1879 till 1882. Among his works are Mount Diablo, and City of Panama. His Summit of the Sierras is in the Crocker gallery, Sacramento, and his Lake Nicaragua in the Stanford gallery of San Francisco. more

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